Start with a 16 ounce portion of big fish.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I went there, and I ordered the eight ounce rib eye for 160 dollars.

Am I sitting down in a steakhouse to a 16 ounce portion of this?

An ounce of wit that is bought is worse a pound that is taught.

There is no doubt that gold s heady rise to the peak, from around 350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling. The price would rise today because everyone had become convinced that it would rise even further tomorrow.

The gold buying policy raised the official gold price from 20.67 an ounce in October 1933 to 35.00 an ounce in January 1934, when the experiment was discontinued. By then, several hundred million dollars had been pumped into the banking system.

A new economic order was established after World War II, with the US as the anchor country. The Bretton Woods system linked the US dollar to gold at 35 per ounce, with other currencies linked to the dollar (though occasionally allowed to make adjustments).

And this also happened to my girls as they began to see, and, we thought, maybe became an ounce more compassionate.

The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

And it's true that an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure, but that's only if we know what to prevent.

You know that you can hold a 40 ounce bottle of rum and two bottles of coke in a wineskin? So what, right?

And instead of charging a dollar fifty for the eight ounce bottle, the way that French's and Gulden's did, they decided to charge four dollars.

VENICE The run up in gold prices in recent years from 800 per ounce in early 2009 to above 1,900 in the fall of 2011 had all the features of a bubble. And now, like all asset price surges that are divorced from the fundamentals of supply and demand, the gold bubble is deflating.

And, from the onset of the global financial crisis, the price of gold has often been portrayed as a barometer of global economic insecurity. So, does the collapse in gold prices from a peak of 1,900 per ounce in August 2011 to under 1,250 at the beginning of July 2013 represent a vote of confidence in the global economy?

Judging from the outcome of last month s meeting of the ECB s Governing Council, that ounce of prevention appears to be right around the corner for the euro zone economy.

Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

NEW YORK Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the 1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards 1,200 an ounce and above. Today s gold bugs argue that the price could top 2,000.

I discovered this bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side that hosted a weekly poetry open mic, and my bewildered, but supportive, parents took me to soak in every ounce of spoken word that I could.

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

The Niger receives just 20 per inhabitant per year, which equals 1.60 per person per month.

Of the required 100 per person per year, 40 per person per year can reasonably be covered by domestic resource mobilization while 60 per person per year would require international assistance.

The female population is 25.8 per cent urban, 31.13 per cent suburban and 43 per cent rural, while the male population is 25.28 per cent urban, 32.02 per cent suburban and 42.71 per cent rural.

Kosovo wide billings and collections by publicly owned enterprises are increasing, approaching 100 per cent for PTK (collections up 5 per cent to 70 per cent) 84 per cent for water sector utilities (collections up 15 per cent to 50 per cent) 60 per cent for KEK (collections 32 per cent).

It's 25 kilograms per person per year.

The main areas supported by these 135 United Nations partnership initiatives were education (22 per cent), health (21 per cent), HIV AIDS (21 per cent), protection (13 per cent), gender (13 per cent) and emergencies (11 per cent).

Minority communities' employment in the public service providers is 5.83 per cent overall (Kosovo Electricity Company under 1.5 per cent, Post and Telecommunication Company 4 per cent, railway 15 per cent, airport 1.7 per cent, water, waste and irrigation 16.6 per cent, district heating 12 per cent).

And two dollars profit per entrepreneur per day, which is like 700 dollars per year.

Since many countries already receive international help of 10 per person per year, the result is a shortfall of 50 per person per year.

I feel constrained to note here that even an ounce of failure on minor issues holds up the release of funds for major projects and programmes in third world countries, despite tons of reasons to go ahead with such projects.

The major audit observations (61 per cent) are in the following key areas financial management (18 per cent) audit management (14 per cent) Information and communications technology (ICT) management (10 per cent), treasury management (10 per cent) and procurement management (9 per cent).

The Forum attracted 4,389 participants, including Government officials (17.7 per cent), local authorities (16.4 per cent), non governmental organizations (21.2 per cent), United Nations entities (4.1 per cent), professional and research institutions (8 per cent) and the private sector (8 per cent).

These accounted for 12.7 per cent and 11.7 per cent of 2004 employment, respectively, as compared with 15.5 per cent and 22.1 per cent in 1999.

Forty eight per cent of the funds requested were for Asia, 42 per cent for Africa, 6 per cent for Eastern Europe, 1 per cent for Latin America and 3 per cent for global projects.

In 2002, procurement for Governments as direct clients was performed mostly by ITU (89 per cent of total) ICAO (85 per cent) UNICEF (32 per cent) IAPSO (8 per cent) and UNFPA (6 per cent).

Figure I shows that the percentage of programme expenditures was highest for ECD (34 per cent), followed by immunization plus (22 per cent), girls' education (21 per cent), child protection (10 per cent), HIV AIDS (9 per cent) and other areas (4 per cent).

Between 1991 01, population growth rates came down from 3 per cent per annum to 2.2 per cent.

The geographical distribution of responses remained largely unchanged between the second and third reporting periods (Africa, 19 per cent Americas, 19 per cent Asia, 28 per cent Europe, 32 per cent and Oceania, 2 per cent).

Of these, 40 per cent are within sub Saharan Africa, 4 per cent in North Africa, 11 per cent in Latin America, 6 per cent in the Caribbean, 5 per cent in West Asia, 5 per cent in East Asia, 8 in South East Asia and Oceania, and 5 per cent in South Asia.

The enrolment rate is 98 per cent for men and 96 per cent for women for elementary education, 56.3 per cent for men and 57.5 per cent for women for secondary education, 18.4 per cent for men and 21.3 per cent for women in higher education.

The figures for other regions were Europe 93 per cent, Africa 75 per cent and Asia 61 per cent.

Transport and insurance payments as a proportion of the value of exports are 55.5 per cent in Malawi, 51.8 per cent in Chad, 48.4 per cent in Rwanda, 35.6 per cent in Mali, 35.5 per cent in Uganda and 32.8 per cent in the Central African Republic.3

In Australia in 2000 2001, total annual health expenditure of AUS 2,908 per female was 27 per cent more than the AUS 2,291 per capita for males. Excluding expenditure on maternal conditions, total health expenditure per female was AUS 2,773 (21 per cent more than male per capita expenditure).

The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

Seventy three per cent of Nicaragua's population is Catholic, 15.1 per cent is Evangelical and 1.5 per cent is Moravian. Two per cent of the population belongs to other faiths and 8.4 per cent does not practise any religion.